On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln's friends promised and manipulated and won the nomination on the third ballot, beating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase.

* The Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities ( 1988 ) ( signed in 1988, not in force )

* Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

In 1860, the Tennessee delegation nominated Johnson for president at the Democratic National Convention, and Johnson tentatively offered himself as a Vice-President on the Douglas ticket as a back up plan.

At the Democratic Convention, when he came in second on the first ballot and faded from there, it became clear that he was too unpopular to run.

* 1961 – The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.

The following year, The Guardian challenged the succession law in court, claiming that it violated the European Convention on Human Rights, which provides " The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status.

The Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (" Tokyo Convention ") is a multilateral convention, done at Tokyo between 20 August and 14 September 1963, coming into force on 4 December 1963, and is applicable to offenses against penal law and to any acts jeopardizing the safety of persons or property on board civilian aircraft while in-flight and engaged in international air navigation.

Signed at The Hague on 16 December 1970, the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft contains 14 articles relating to what constitutes hijacking as well as guidelines for what is expected of governments when dealing with hijackings.

See the United Nations website for full text on " Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation ".

DiFranco went on to perform at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Internationally, DMT is a Schedule I drug under the Convention on Psychotropic Substances.

The Commentary on the Convention on Psychotropic Substances notes, however, that the plants containing it are not subject to international control :< ref >

A fax from the Secretary of the International Narcotics Control Board to the Netherlands Ministry of Public Health sent in 2001 goes on to state that " Consequently, preparations ( e. g. decoctions ) made of these plants, including ayahuasca, are not under international control and, therefore, not subject to any of the articles of the 1971 Convention.

, He served in the Eisenhower Administration, filling posts including director of the Mutual Security Administration ( foreign aid ) and Special Assistant to the President for Disarmament .< Ref > During this period he held cabinet rank and led a quixotic effort ( perhaps covertly encouraged by Eisenhower, who had reservations about Richard Nixon's maturity for the presidency ) to " dump Nixon " at the 1956 Republican Convention.

The third Nootka Convention also known as the Convention for the Mutual Abandonment of Nootka, was signed on January 11, 1794.

A recent focus area of the CIPM has been the establishment of the CIPM Arrangement de reconnaissance mutuelle ( Mutual Recognition Arrangement, MRA ) which serves as the framework for the mutual acceptance of measurements performed in the Member States of the Metre Convention.

The European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters ( CETS No. 030 ), open for signature by the Members of the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg, on 20 April 1959, stipulates that parties agree to afford each other the widest measure of mutual assistance with a view to gathering evidence, hearing witnesses, experts and prosecuted persons, etc.

In 1669, Captain Richard Cobb had a banquet in his house ( to celebrate both his marriage to Mary Gorham and his election to the Convention of Assistance ), serving wild turkey with sauce made from wild cranberries.

In the years that followed, other states subscribed to limitations of their conduct, and numerous other treaties and bodies were created to regulate the conduct of states towards one another in terms of these treaties, including, but not limited to, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in 1899 ; the Hague and Geneva Conventions, the first of which was passed in 1907 ; the International Court of Justice in 1921 ; the Genocide Convention ; and the International Criminal Court, in the late 1990s.

See e. g. European Convention on Human Rights, article 7 ( 1 ); Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, articles 22 and 23.

( article 2 of the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption ( ETS 173 ) of the Council of Europe ).

Passive bribery can be defined as the request or receipt any public official, directly or indirectly, of any undue advantage, for himself or herself or for anyone else, or the acceptance of an offer or a promise of such an advantage, to act or refrain from acting in the exercise of his or her functions ( article 3 of the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption ( ETS 173 )).

Where lobbying is ( sufficiently ) regulated, it becomes possible to provide for a distinctive criteria and to consider that trading in influence involves the use of " improper influence ", as in article 12 of the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption ( ETS 173 ) of the Council of Europe.

* the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption ( ETS 173 );

* the Additional Protocol to the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption ( ETS 191 );

Andorra is a full member of the United Nations ( UN ), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ), International Criminal Court ( ICC ), International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property ( ICCROM ), International Telecommunications Union ( ITU ), International Red Cross, Universal Copyright Convention, Council of Europe, EUTELSAT, World Tourism Organization, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ), Customs Cooperation Council ( CCC ), and Interpol.

( article 2 of the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption ( ETS 173 ) of the Council of Europe ).

Passive bribery can be defined as the request or receipt any public official, directly or indirectly, of any undue advantage, for himself or herself or for anyone else, or the acceptance of an offer or a promise of such an advantage, to act or refrain from acting in the exercise of his or her functions ( article 3 of the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption ( ETS 173 )).

Furthermore, he was an opponent of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the International Criminal Court and the Chemical Weapons Convention which he criticized as ineffective and dangerous to U. S. interests.

Under President George W. Bush the United States rejected such multilateral agreements as the Kyoto Protocol, the International Criminal Court, the Ottawa Treaty banning anti-personnel land mines and a draft protocol to ensure compliance by States with the Biological Weapons Convention.

Carlos Diaz-Paniagua, who coordinated the negotiations of the proposed United Nations Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism, noted, on his part, the need to provide a precise definition of terrorist activities in international law: " Criminal law has three purposes: to declare that a conduct is forbidden, to prevent it, and to express society's condemnation for the wrongful acts.

: The Criminal Justice ( United Nations Convention Against Torture ) Act 2000 ( No. 11 )

For example, the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court defines enforced disappearance as a crime against humanity, and the practice is specifically addressed by the OAS's Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons.

In January 2004, Darby provided 2 compact discs of photographs to Special Agent Tyler Pieron of the U. S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, who was stationed at Abu Ghraib Prison, triggering an investigation that led to the implication of several soldiers violating the Geneva Convention.

Željko Ražnatović was indicted in 1997 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for his commandment of the Guard as the unit was allegedly responsible for numerous crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Convention and violations of the laws or customs of war, including active participation in the ethnic cleansing in Bijeljina and Zvornik in 1992.

The Criminal Anarchism convictions of Ruthenberg and Ferguson were ultimately overturned by the New York Supreme Court In July 1922, just in time for another round of prosecutions, this time related to ill-fate August 1922 Unity Convention of the CPA held at Bridgman, Michigan.

It concluded beyond doubt that the law applicable in armed conflict as embodied in the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the Hague Convention ( IV ) of 18 October 1907 had become part of international customary law, and should be part of the subject matter jurisdiction of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

While the Sudan Criminal Code of 1991 does not list slavery as a crime, Sudan has ratified the Slavery Convention, the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, and is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ( ICCPR ).

It provides investigative services such as Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Narcotics Enforcement Unit, Organized Crime Track Force, and, Special Investigations Unit, and also provides support to state police operations in NYC such as state police troopers patrolling the state-run Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and NYS governors office as well as parade details held in New York City, special operations, and activities on Wards Island.

However, what is arguably the most substantial innovation of the Second Protocol are the provisions in Chapter 4: Criminal responsibility and jurisdiction, which both give teeth to, and internationalise, the rather vague obligations on States in Article 28 of the original Convention to take action within their ordinary criminal jurisdiction in respect of breaches of the Convention, with the defining of five explicit offences of serious violations of the Protocol are defined in Article 15.